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Parliament, Politics & People Seminar: Jason Frost, ‘Church, State and Parliament in the Late Eighteenth Century in the Martyrdom Day Sermons of 30th January’
Reporting back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar, Jason Frost (University of Westminster) spoke on ‘Church, State and…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography. The Commons 1640-1660. Part 2: Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602-50), the self-fashioning MP
In the second of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the problems associated…
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Cabinet resignations: an issue of principle
Following Iain Duncan-Smith’s high profile resignation from the cabinet this weekend, we take a look back at some other examples…
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“Contrary to the fundamental laws of nature”? The passage of the Declaratory Act, March 1766
250 years ago this week Parliament passed the ‘Declaratory Act’, aimed at limiting the damage of the earlier repeal of…
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Writing Parliamentary Biography, the Commons 1640-1660. Part 1: Methods
In the first of a four-part series, Dr Stephen Roberts, editor of the Commons 1640-60 section, discusses the History’s research…
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‘The Story of Parliament’: Pitt and Fox
Last year the History published ‘The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 years of parliament in Britain’ to mark the anniversary…
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Parliaments, Politics & People seminar: Luke Blaxill, ‘”Big data” and the analysis of parliamentary and platform speeches, 1880-present’
In the first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ Seminar of 2016, Dr Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) spoke on ‘‘Big data’…
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Parliament and the Gulf War in 1991
In today’s guest blog, Teemu Hakkinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), who has researched the royal prerogative in decisions to go…
